Middle-school texts don't make the grade

Physics Today

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 50-54

  Hubisz, John ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR DETECTION; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); TEXTBOOKS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

PHYSICAL SCIENCES;

EDUCATION;

EID: 0038636329     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1583534     Document Type: Article

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